The Inhumanity of War | Doug Bandow | Cato Institute: Commentary

The Inhumanity of War | Doug Bandow | Cato Institute: Commentary: "Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, recently made an astonishing admission of civilian deaths, so often euphemistically referred to as 'collateral damage.' At a meeting with U.S. personnel in Afghanistan, Gen. McChrystal discussed the problem of shootings at checkpoints: 'We've shot an amazing number of people and killed a number and, to my knowledge, none has proven to have been a real threat to the force.' He added that he knew of no case when 'we have engaged in an escalation of force incident and hurt someone has it turned out that the vehicle had a suicide bomb or weapons in it.'"